I looked up the statistics and am surprised. I was with you, and am with you as far as taking the bottles and cans to the recycling centers. Folks dig through our recycling on the curb for them. But check this out: "Last year, Oregon recycled 90 percent of the beverage containers covered by its bottle deposit system. The rate has jumped from 64 percent just two years ago, and the total number of bottles recycled reached an all-time high of 2 billion in 2018." So, maybe it does work. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesal...eposit-system-hits-90-percent-redemption-rate
Use BottleDrop. Get an account, you just drop your bag of bottles and walk away. Plus you get 12 cents back instead of 10. barfo
Question for the lawmakers on this. What do they plan on doing about all of the other bags that will now be bought to use in bathroom and office garbage cans that these grocery bags so conveniently fit? Do they not know many people use the bags for this purpose and get a second use out of them, but now this law will negate that second use, but not the bag count if people then need to go buy bags to put in the small garbage cans most people have in their homes? This is right up there with the straw law... We are getting dumber by the year......
Dang, barfo, I didn't know about that. https://www.bottledropcenters.com/ I'd probably kiss you if it weren't for the stubble and the rum odor.
@barfo has been buying my empties for 11 cents and returning them for 12 cents. He'll be a millionaire in 80-90 years.
This is absolute and complete bullshit! I personally know three people who work in the recycling industry. The funniest part about this is you actually started it off by calling the original post "Fake News" and followed it with some lame brained made up idea that was supposed to make you look smart or something? Idiocracy at it's finest.
I believe it was Willamette Week that exposed the illegal scam/taxation fraud by Portland government about a year ago, but it might have been the Oregonian. Yes, they separate recyclables. Then they truck them all to the landfill, except for a few categories that they can sell for a profit. You call BS on pretty much anything you don't like the sound of, and never bring anything factual to back it up, so...
This means that you should be providing us with credible evidence supporting your claim. I know there are some places that do as you describe but I do not know how prevalent it is.
lmao! I have first hand information from an actual large disposal company and have actually been out there and shown how they separate the recycling and garbage. They pay a lot more to dispose of garbage thus it is cost effective for them to do it that way. You on the other hand say it was so and so or maybe it was so and so that said garbage companies all dump their recyclables along with their garbage at the same place. What facts have you brought. Nothing!!!!
The falsehood spewing fictional character you play is a fraud. I won't summarize the article for you, sorry, but you are mistaken. https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/06/...se-we-keep-throwing-garbage-in-our-blue-bins/
I pulled off a great gain on returnable bottles a few years back. For some reason I had accumulated 7 large garbage bags of returnables and then they went from $.05 to $.10 so I eventually returned them to one of the bottle drop off locations and made double the money of what I paid for them. I think it was like $60 total so instead of the $30 I paid for them I made an extra $30.
I'm safe. That $30 profit doesn't change my tax status. Besides, I used the funds to buy some pot and it's taxed so I actually was helping Oregon's tax fund. Reinvest in Oregon!
